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SUMMARY:Inequality and Democracy Today - 2015-2016 LEFRAK FORUM & SYMPOSIUM 
DESCRIPTION:
 Thursday, October 8\n
 7:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker, 
 Kellogg Center Auditorium\n
 Sean Wilentz, History 
 Department, Princeton University\n
 \n
 Sean 
 Wilentz, Princeton University, Keynote Speaker\n
 October 
 8, 2015\n
 \n
 The LeFrak Forum and 
 Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy 
 in the Department of Political Science 
 present a conference on the Question of Inequality. 
  The Keynote Address is being delivered 
 by Sean Wilentz, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor 
 of American History at Princeton University 
 on Thursday, October 8, 2015 at the Kellogg 
 Center Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.\n
 \n
 Sean Wilentz 
 is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor 
 of American History at Princeton University. 
  He received his Ph.D. in history from Yale 
 University (1980) after earning bachelor's degrees 
 from Columbia University (1972) and Balliol 
 College, Oxford University (1974).  He 
 is the author or editor of twelve books, including 
 The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson 
 to Lincoln (2005, which was awarded the Bancroft 
 Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer 
 Prize.  His writings on American music have 
 earned him two Grammy nominations and two 
 Deems-Taylor-ASCAP awards.  Professor Wilentz 
 lectures frequently and has written some three 
 hundred articles, reviews, and op-ed pieces 
 for publications such as the New York Review 
 of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times 
 Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, 
 and Dissent.  He has helped prepare speeches 
 and congressional testimony, most notably 
 his own testimony before the House Judiciary 
 Committee in conjuction with the impeachment 
 drive against President Bill Clinton in December 
 1998.  He spent the academic year 2014-15 
 as the Leah and Michael Weisberg Fellow at the 
 New-York Historical Society and the Siemens 
 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy 
 in Berlin.  He also delivered the annual Nathan 
 I. Huggins Lectures at Harvard.  His forthcoming 
 book, The Politicians & the Egalitarians: 
 the Hidden History of American Politics, 
 will appear in Spring 2016.  \n
 \n
 The LeFrak 
 Forum and Symposium on Science, Reason & Modern 
 Democracy in the Department of\n
 Political 
 Science present a conference titled INEQUALITY 
 AND DEMOCRACY TODAY. This conference will\n
 take place October 9-10 on the campus of Michigan 
 State University. The Keynote Address titled 
 THE\n
 FORGOTTEN AMERICAN EGALITARIAN TRADITION 
 is being delivered by Professor Sean Wilentz, 
 the\n
 George Henry Davis 1886 Professor 
 of American History at Princeton University. 
 This event is free to the\n
 public.\n
 At the heart 
 of much contemporary debate, both academic 
 and political, is the fear that in advanced\n
 capitalist 
 societies economic inequality is 
 inexorably increasing--coupled with the fear 
 that such\n
 equality must pose a grave danger 
 to the economic, moral, political or cultural 
 well-being of society. This\n
 debate has recently 
 risen to a new level of precision and 
 prominence. Through the conference, we\n
 would 
 like to explore this issue, with special emphasis 
 on the political issue of economic inequality 
 and\n
 liberal democracy. We seek to bring 
 together thinkers both within the academy, 
 from various relevant\n
 disciplines, and representing 
 a range of perspectives.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Project 60/50 & Department of Political Science\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.inclusion.msu.edu/index.html\n
 Contact name: Kim Neir\n
 Contact phone:  (517) 355-6590\n
 Contact email: neirkimj@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://lefrakforum.msu.edu/\n
LOCATION:Kellogg Center Auditorium
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